Tara’s Journey by Mariclaire Norton
Tara’s Journey deals with the private journal of ArdRighan Tara the First of Eirlandia. The book, retrieved several centuries after the events depicted in the journal by Maeve of the Fighdrui, tells the life story of Tara starting with her capture by the Vikland prince, Alaric, through her adventures on the road to becoming Eirlandia’s ArdRighan (high queen) and her efforts to win the war with her country’s greatest enemy, the Formorrid.
This story is the first in an ongoing saga involving the past and present of this magical kingdom and its mysterious allies, the Sidheran. Magical stones, romance, mysterious ancestries, quests, and dangers both physical and mystical abound.